About 450 detainees were released from Iraqi and United States-run prisons on Tuesday under a reconciliation plan aimed at bringing insurgents into the political process and ending the deadly tide of bloodshed in Iraq. But at least 21 people were killed a day after dozens died in a wave of violence, including 22 people blown up by a motorbike bomb.
United States overseer Paul Bremer’s decision to free about 500 Iraqi prisoners shines the spotlight on the US-run penal system in Iraq, where human rights groups and family members complain people just vanish.
US to release Iraqi prisoners